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Dietary carotenoid availability, sexual signalling and functional fertility in sticklebacks

In species where males express carotenoid-based sexual signals, more intensely coloured males may be signalling their enhanced ability to combat oxidative stress. This may include mitigating deleterious oxidative damage to their sperm, and so be directly related to their functional fertility. Using...

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Autores principales: Pike, Thomas W., Blount, Jonathan D., Lindström, Jan, Metcalfe, Neil B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2865065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19923137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0815